User:Stevenarntson/Analytical Writing/Camp

Susan Sontag was one of the first authors to think deeply about cultural effluvia that we might otherwise dismiss as trash. Her essay Notes On Camp is an amazing discussion of those forms of culture that people call "So bad it's good."
 * Today in class we'll take a look at some trash culture and see if a close reading of it might become interesting. In particular, we'll take a look at the comic strips in today's newspaper.